Bristol and Bath make the perfect combination for a dual-city trip this 'scare season' with award winning attractions providing all the screams you can handle alongside some of the best food and drink, things to do and places to stay in the country. Here is a list of events to get your spine tingling....
FEAR at Avon Valley Scream Park
Selected dates between 7-31 October
Award-winning event FEAR at Avon Valley Scream Park is gearing up for its biggest scare experience this year called #ABloodyGoodNight. Along with thrilling fair rides, street entertainment, the famous fire display and the scare shows is a new experience called Exorcism (tickets are limited, book early to avoid disappointment).
Tickets from £35, for ages 16+
https://visitbristol.co.uk/whats-on/fear-at-avon-valley-scream-park-p3070783
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Mary Shelley’s House of Frankenstein – After Dark: Purgatory
6-10pm 21-31 October 2022
This October Mary Shelley’s House of Frankenstein presents 'After Dark – nights to die for’. An intense multi-sensory horror event for those aged 15 and above. Set over five floors in a period town house in the centre of Bath, visitors navigate the house in darkness encountering the horrors of ‘Purgatory’, featuring live actors, special effects and disturbing aromascapes. Brave the dark underbelly of the House in the X-treme basement walkthrough experience and steady your nerves in the Bloody Mary’s Bar serving horrifyingly good cocktails and drinks. £15 per person, age 15+
Mary Shelley’s House of Frankenstein, Bath - a multi-sensory world-first visitor attraction
Wake The Tiger: Danse Macabre
28 October
Visit Bristol’s newest attraction Wake the Tiger is pulling out the stops this Halloween for a special event - Danse Macabre - on the evening of 28 October with live bands, DJs, pop-up performances, frightening costumes and a fully licensed bar. Wake the Tiger – brought to us by the creative masterminds of Boomtown Fair – blurs the boundaries between immersive, multi-sensory art gallery and fantastical film set and is already a sight to behold, so this one-off Halloween event is expected to sell out quickly.
£35 per ticket, max 6 tickets per booking. For ages 18+
https://visitbristol.co.uk/whats-on/danse-macabre-at-wake-the-tiger-p3177633
Halloween Spooktacular at Wookey Hole
22-30 October
Who could resist getting into the spirit of Halloween at the Home of the Witch? This Halloween a coven of friendly witches will be taking over Wookey Hole (south of Bristol) for the week. It will be a spectacular day out and every child will go home with a treat from the Witches and many magical memories. The experience includes a visit to the undead circus, a broomstick riding class with Wookey Hole’s resident wizard, and a Halloween film in a 4D cinema, as well as all the other attractions of Wookey Hole. Tickets are £19.95 for adults, £16.45 for children.
https://visitbristol.co.uk/whats-on/halloween-spooktacular-at-wookey-hole-p3181613
Bath Adventures Ghost Hunters Silent Disco Tour - Dance for your life on a spine-chilling tour of Bath
Friday and Saturdays throughout October and November and 30 & 31 October
Join Bath Adventures on an immersive journey and reveal the stories lurking within closed pages. Follow in the footsteps of the nameless ghost hunter through the streets of Bath and dance - possibly for your life - to finish the job they started all those years ago.
In the 1980s, a young ghost hunter came to Bath at the peak of their career to document all its restless residents. Sadly, their work was never completed due to an untimely and mysterious death. The certainty that they existed at all is in their unfinished research notes, and their Walkman, still loaded with the mixtape they were listening to at the time. £15 per person, age 13+
Terrifying Turnip Trail at Brunel’s SS Great Britain
22-30 October
Reveal truths about ‘All Hallows Eve’ customs and traditions from Victorian times this October half term at SS Great Britain’s Terrifying Turnip Trail. There will be Gothic characters and horror monsters roaming the ship, based on descriptions from Victorian novels, as well as gruesome additions to the sights, sounds and smells of this historic ship.
https://visitbristol.co.uk/whats-on/terrifying-turnip-trail-at-brunels-ss-great-britain-p2315773
Mendip Activity Centre
1-30 October
There is a Zombie outbreak at Mendip activity Centre this October! Special Halloween themed activities include tobogganing with trick or treat sweets and the chance to tackle the zombie outbreak with archery, air rifle and axe-throwing.
https://visitbristol.co.uk/whats-on/halloween-at-mendip-activity-centre-p3083123
Bump in the Night Spooky Lantern Parade
30 October
Bristol’s history and cultural heritage is being showcased in a parade of giant puppets travelling from Broadmead to King Street this Halloween. There are family-friendly workshops being held throughout October so people can sign up and help create a variety of lanterns and puppets from Ghost Port (an illuminated ghost ship celebrating Bristol’s historic waterways), Anansi (a workshop where you create a giant spider and make costumes and Halloween headdresses inspired by Bristol’s African and Caribbean communities), Another Bristol Giant (a large-scale puppet of Patrick Cotter, an 8ft tall roofer) and Bristol Bats (bat lanterns to mark Bristol’s wild bat population).
https://visitbristol.co.uk/whats-on/bristols-bump-in-the-night-spooky-lantern-parade-p3177333
SEE MONSTER
Now-5 November
While not technically Halloween-themed, this is a still beast…! SEE MONSTER is a 35-metre-tall decommissioned rig from the North Sea that has been reimagined into a free-to-visit public art installation at Weston-super-Mare, just 30-minutes by train from Bristol. Part of the Unboxed festival, SEE MONSTER focuses on our favourite talking point – the great British weather – and explores how renewable energy sources and old, industrial structures can be used in different and beautiful ways. There’s a mesmerising waterfall, an installation on 6000 shimmering scales on the side of the monster, a weather deck with a mist machine simulating what it feels like to be inside a cloud, and a wind nest and solar trees harnessing energy from the elements. Plus, the twisty tunnel slide is frighteningly fun and fast! While you’re in Weston-super-Mare, visit A Grand Halloween at The Grand Pier where you can carve pumpkins, watch The Ghouls of Weston College perform as zombies, living dolls and ghosts and ghouls, or take part in a Ghoulish Scavenger hunt on the pier.
https://visitbristol.co.uk/seemonster
American Trick or Treat at the American Museum and Gardens
22 – 30 October
This Halloween, children can visit dressed in a favourite costume throughout October half term for a real American Trick or Treat experience at only £2.50 per child in addition to the admission ticket.
With a Trick or Treat ticket you can follow a child-friendly trail through the historic Manor House on a scavenger hunt for magic potion ingredients and tiptoe though spooky rooms where a visiting witch and wizard have made themselves at home. There is also a festive outdoor trail around our decorated autumnal gardens, plus a creation station in the Stables with seasonal activities. If you take part in one or both of the trails, you can collect a Halloween treat. £2.50 per child in addition to admission fee.
American Trick or Treat - American Museum & Gardens
The Little Theatre X House of Frankenstein
Saturday 29 October
Mary Shelley’s House of Frankenstein x The Little Theatre Cinema presents the cinematic horror event of the year. The Little will be screening James Whale’s 1931 adaptation of Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’. This original Universal classic has long been one of the most enduring images of the iconic monster, starring Boris Karloff in the title role. If you think of Frankenstein’s monster as pale green with bolts in his neck, you have James Whale’s 1931 adaptation to thank. As part of the ticket, guests will also have access to ‘Mary Shelley’s House of Frankenstein’ across the Halloween weekend.
Film Information | Picturehouse Cinemas (picturehouses.com)
Pumpkin picking patches
Various dates in October
Being a city in the countryside, Bristol has a wide range of pumpkin patches nearby where you can pick your own pumpkin this Halloween. Try the Pumpkin Fest at Noah’s Ark Zoo Farm (entrance to the pumpkin picking corner is £3, in addition to the admission charges to the Zoo) where you PYO as well as hear talks about creepy crawlies and watch the Zoo’s owls in the Birds of Prey display, or go on the Owl of the World Trail. Or head east of the city to Avon Valley Wildlife and Adventure Park for the Pumpkin Patch Nights where there are fair rides, street food, pop-up bar, pumpkin paintball and of course PYO pumpkins (tickets up to £9). Just south of the city is Pumpkins at Farrington’s, open at weekends in October, where you can pick your favourite looking pumpkin and visit the farm shop, play barn and café (tickets need to be booked in advance – this is a popular pumpkin spot!).
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